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Coney Island Icon – The Wonder Wheel. An eccentric ferris wheel.

A hundred and fifty feet tall – and believe me, it feels even taller – the Wonder Wheel is an eccentric ferris wheel, meaning that 16 of its 24 cars are not fixed onto its rim but slide in and out as the wheel rotates. Kind of scary. Built in 1920 and operated by electricity, the only time it stopped was on that “Where were you when the lights went out” day of New York City’s blackout in 1977. I wasn’t on the wheel at that moment but think I would have preferred to be than being where I was…s